The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-05-13
SUMMARY or THE NEWS.
EAST.

noon.
Two men were ~suffocated BY gas in 1.-THE Ash.
land colliery near Pottsville, Pa.
The motion to quash Acknowledgement ssainst
Jacob Sharpe has been denied BY Judge Van
Brunt.
Indictments were found against thirteen Of
the Panhandle railroad employees for rohbing
freight cars.
volncv R. Chamberlain accused Of perjury
committed suicide at Cambridge, Mass, Mon.
day. BY shooting himself through the heart.
DR.. A. j. Grant, a noted bigamist, awaiting
trial for robbing and deserving a Cambridge,
Mass, lady, after marrying her, died in jail at
Cambridge on Tuesday.
The greatest frcehet since 1859 prevails at
Fairfield, Me-, and the water is rising rapidly.
The bulkhead at somersetis gone, taking With
It $4,000 worth of logs.
Capt. Isaac H. Houphton, ~bookkeeper for
Sculc & Bradley, of Boston, left the city more
than a week ago. It is believed he has gone
to Canada. The amount Of his shortage lie
placed at $1,000.
Friday Rev. A. Morrison, who stole . horse
and buggy in Baltimore on the 9Th, was sen.
fenced to ten years in the peniteniary at hard
labor. &c was formerly a Methodist minister.
Liquor was the cause OF his downfall.
The boilers of the towboat j. c. Rishe,
burst at an early hour Monday morning while
the steamer was passing Woods Run, q few
miles below Pittsburg. A man named HAYS
was instantly killed and two others fatally in.
iurcd.
James r. Farrell, importer of ehawls aud
wholesale dealer in woolens at No. 81 Wash,
ington street, New York, made an assignment,
Tuesday to Morgan j. Obevan. without
preference. Mr.. Farrell is we'll known through
out the United States and Europe, nm accoun,
OF his prominent connection with Irisl
affairs.
The United States secret service officers a
New York last Saturday arrested two wome,
named Mrs. Annie Kelly and Miss Ellen Bar
rett, who have been engaged in counterfeitip,
silver coins. The prisoners were caught a
work with a complete set of tools. They ar
sisters and one is the wife Of the notoriou
counterfcitcr, George Kelly.
3 Kate Fisher. sixteen years old, was foun
clinging to piles underneath the docks at tn
foot of East Twenty.eighth street, New York
Tuesday morning. She said she was nun
into the river by a young rufian who ha
outragcously assaulted her, but that bein,
able to swim she managed to save her life
She said che had been in the water ten hours
The Pennsylvania board of pardons hay
recommended pardons in the cases of Michae
O'Bricn and Christopher Donnelly, known q
1.-THE last of the Mollie Maguires." Twenty
one members Of that famous organizatio,
were hanged, many served various terms O
imprisonment, n a large number fled tn
country when the murdcr0us conspiracy wa
exposed in 1876.
During a heavy shower Saturday afternoon
a watcrspout burst on Fairbanks hill, west o
Pctersboro, Maine, and caused the mos
damaging washout ever known in town. Tn
water came down in sheets, covering the en-
tire hillside, and upon reaching the stree
swept everything before it. Large rocks
weighing two tons, were washed from thci
beds and left in the streets.
A joint meeting OF the coke workers of tn
Miners Amalgamated association and Knight
OF Labor was held at Everson, Pa, on Tues
dav. 1t was decided to Immediately euspcn,
work until the demands for an advance askc,
for last Saturday are granted. The meetin,
was a representative one and the strike vii
extend to all the works in the Connellsvill
region. About 1900 men will be affectc,
and a long and bitter struggle is anticipated
A long freight train on the P%hiladelphi,
and Reading road, going north Saturday, col
lided with a loaded coal train near TaImauua
Both engines were wrecked and the box car
of the freight train shattered from end t,
md. One brakeman of the freight train wa
instantly killed and the fireman fatally in
jured. The engineer Of the coal train viii
probably not recover. The ~pccuniary loss Il
very heavy. The accident is charged to Trafi
Dispatcher Scott, who, it is said, has disap
peared.
A sensation was created In New York OF
Friday by charges preferred against ex-Com
mfssionrrs Coleman and Donnclly, before
Mayor Hewitt, by the vice.prcsident of the
Central Taxpayers association. 1t is charged
that the commissioners nave been guilty OF
gross neglect and allowed; the loss to the city
of over $1,000 600 OF taxes; that property ag
gregating t50,000,0N had not been assessed
The case Of w. H. Vanderbilt, whose will dis.
CLOSED over s33 900, OCO of taxable bonds, was
assed at IS, O 10000.
The water in the saltwater and Penobsco,
rivers in Maine is the highest within thu
recollection of the Oldest inhabitant. One o,
the finest mills on the Saltwater rivcris lively.
inches under water. The railroad tracks ar,
from W to four feet under water. The Jud
son Briggs boom at Brownville, Me-, broke OF
Saturday, letting a million feet of logs u
down the river. at Ellsworth some BOOM
and swing dams went out Saturday and Sun
day. Saturday the Bangor bridge at the heat
of the falls started, but was saved. Every
bridge, excepting the Maine. bridge, 10 i'm
passablc, and all have been ballasted.
A Watervllle, Maine, telegram Of the 3Oti
says: Rain has been telling for thirty-si,
hours, and the water in the Kcnnebec rive
has risen to a greater height than known fol
eighteen years. Two million logs at somer
set mills have broken loose and are foatins
out to sea. Many buildings along the rive
bank are afoat, and the water is still risinga,
the rate Of elk inches per hour. The damag.
cannot fail to be great. Advices from Fairfield
report the boom there broke Saturday morn
ing, setting free upwards of 100000 logs
The lumbermen are on the lookout, and q,
| attempt will he made tn nrevent their fo,,ov